Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Sep 2018 10:52:12 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 1/1] perf/x86/intel: make error messages less confusing |
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 08:07:32AM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote: > On a system with X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON disabled > and with a model not known by family PMU drivers, > user gets a kernel message log like the following: > [ 0.100114] Performance Events: unsupported p6 CPU model 85 no PMU driver, software events only. > > The "unsupported .. CPU" part may be confusing for some > users leading to wrong understanding that the kernel > does not support the CPU model.
Send them back to first grade, such that they might learn to read?
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